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Texas EOC English 2: 4.5. For what purpose does the passage mention "commercially-important species of fish"?
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- 00:04
Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by commercialism.
- 00:07
Like most everything else in the world. [Man staring at lots of buy advert pages]
- 00:11
Check out the following passage...
- 00:21
Read the excerpt from paragraph 2. [Paragraph 2 shown]
- 00:31
The passage mentions "commercially-important species of fish" for the purposes of —?what?
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- 00:37
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:41
We’re going to need a firm grasp of the whole passage to know why it decides to take [Hand grabs piece of paper]
- 00:46
this commercial break.
- 00:47
Choice (B) goes a bit too far when it says that habitats with commercially important [Man stood with lots of cows]
- 00:51
species are more worthy of protection than those without.
- 00:55
The passage doesn’t make any distinctions.
- 00:56
We have a feeling the folks at the EPA are trying to protect all estuaries no matter [EPA woman stood in an estuary]
- 01:01
what.
- 01:04
(C) doesn't get to the point of the statement. [Pencil sharpened]
- 01:06
It's not just that there are vast numbers of species in estuaries—because there are.
- 01:10
It’s that there are also commercially important species.
- 01:14
By commercially important it means that you can hunt the species and sell it to make money so you can pay rent.
- 01:21
Let us not forget the rare cola squid, source of all the world’s Coke. [Squid with a can of cola]
- 01:28
(D) may be a tempting choice.
- 01:30
But it doesn't accurately capture the purpose of the reference to commercially [Girl takes photo of answer (D)]
- 01:34
species.
- 01:35
The passage doesn’t really say which reasons are more important.
- 01:39
Option (A) is the best answer.
- 01:40
The main point of the passage is that estuaries are important for a bunch of reasons.
- 01:44
The mention of commercially-important species of fish highlights the fact that we depend [Fisherman with a net of fish]
- 01:50
on estuaries for commercial and ecological reasons.
- 01:53
What would the world do if the soda squid went extinct? [Soda squid dies]
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